Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 30

God screens us evermore from premature ideas. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. View quote
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? View quote
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. View quote
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. View quote
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. View quote
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. View quote
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. View quote
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. View quote
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. View quote
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. View quote
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. View quote
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. View quote
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. View quote
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. View quote
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. View quote
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? View quote
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. View quote
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. View quote
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. View quote
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. View quote
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. View quote
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. View quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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